Articles tagged with David Cameron

A more cynical person than me might suggest that David Cameron's Easter message was rather political.

The PM declared: "This is the time when, as Christians, we remember the life, sacrifice and living legacy of Christ. The New Testament tells us so much about the character of Jesus; a man of incomparable compassion, generosity, grace, humility and love. These are the values that Jesus embraced, and I believe these are values people of

After hitting the nation, and probably bankrupting their ‘fave pasty store’, Greggs, with a bizarre tax on heated foodstuffs, the terrible two have made unconvincing noises about their love of the pastry staple.

Their attempt to diffuse pastygate has backfired massively. Instead of explaining why on earth they had decided to put small bakeries out of business, the Tories

I doubt Jacques Rogge knows what a Cornish Pasty is and it’s even less likely that he’s ever eaten one. But it made for a surreal Olympics press conference this morning when the President of the IOC and Seb Coe joined the PM for a brief press conference to discover that the assembled press wanted to discuss fuel strikes, Cornwall’s national food and the upcoming Olympic jamboree.

There are the obvious financial motivations for why the Conservative Party and David Cameron find themselves in such trouble over their donors and what they get for their money. As party memberships decrease, donations have become ever more important to fill the funding gap.

But why are hugely successful businessmen so desperate to have private audiences with top-ranking politicians? Speaking to a Conservative PPS in the House of Commons yesterday afternoon, he was

It’s a well-known rule of politics that if you sling enough mud you everyone gets so dirty you can’t tell who started it.

In his statement to the House of Commons on party funding this afternoon, an angry Francis Maude illustrated this to a fault. As I said earlier, it was a tactical decision by the prime minister to send a senior Conservative minister out to bat for him in Parliament on

After his defence secretary resigned over his ‘blurred’ relationship with a former aide and defence lobbyist, the PM renewed his commitment to introduce a statutory register of lobbyists, but didn’t seize the opportunity to implement greater ministerial transparency.

Following, rather than leading, the sequence of events.

At the height of the phone hacking scandal, there were calls for ministers to publish their meetings with

Another day, another lobbying scandal? You would have thought so if you listened to the Conservative spokespeople hitting the airwaves yesterday. Their diagnoses and remedies were comfortingly familiar: "This was just boasting; there would have been other checks. Anyway, this is a problem for all parties. This government is the first to publish details of meetings between outside interests and ministers.' And above all: "we need to get on and introduce the proposed

What would you do if you have a really important set of decisions to make? Decisions that will have a direct impact on the lives of millions of people, on the future of the country and – although of course you are too saintly to think of this – on your own future career prospects.

Locking yourself away in secret and deciding all the key decisions on your own before presenting them to

According to the latest labour market figures, unemployment is up again. This is the eighth quarterly rise in a row and brings the jobless total to 2.67m, while the number of people in work fell by 44,000 over the last 12 months. Contrast this with the US, where unemployment has been on a downward trajectory since June last year and 2.5m new jobs were added to the labour market in the 12 months

In a deft riposte, Francois Hollande yesterday criticised his running mate Nicholas Sarkozy for acting like David Cameron. Following Sarkozy’s lurch to the right and threat that he would suspend France’s membership of the Schengen Area – the area that permits freedom of movement between all EU states except the UK and Ireland – Hollande chastised Sarkozy for his “British” and “Conservative” approach to the EU.

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